The One & Only Quotes

“Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“You know in your heart when you’re doing the right thing and when you’re not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“It didn’t matter that we weren’t much alike on paper. That I thought the best of people, and she often assumed the worst. That I was an introvert, and she could work a room like nobody I’d ever seen but her mother. That I was even-tempered, and she was moody and dramatic. That I was no frills, and she was all frills. That I loved football, and she simply tolerated it. The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“As I’ve said many times, the only way to stay trim is to eat bacon.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“I don't love him, period. I didn't love him before this. I cared about him. And I wanted to love him. Maybe I could have grown to love him. But those feelings just weren't there. I liked the idea of him. It was exciting. He was exciting. Too exciting.”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“Maybe it was sacrilegious to admit that I felt closer to God inside that stadium than in church on Christmas Eve, but it was the truth, and I told myself it was no different from people who find their deepest spirituality in the woods or by the sea. Yes, God made those trees and that water, unlike the steel eyesore erected in 1938 and haphazardly added on to over the decades, but I still felt Him there - especially on that night, as I found myself praying for a season to remember. A national championship season.”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“thinking that so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“ESPN. “Another one bites the dust to the network that puts entertainment ahead of sports,”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“one of life’s simple joys that it had never been hijacked by drunken coeds, redneck townies, or cougars on the prowl, the three groups that seemed to overrun every other halfway-decent bar or restaurant”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“Coach Carr once explained it this way: I was born on February 22, 1980, within the very hour that the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, in the game dubbed the Miracle on Ice. It would have been more fitting if it had been an epic football game, Coach said, but the fact that it is widely considered one of the greatest moments in sports still seemed noteworthy—a foreshadowing of my destiny.”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“line is as useless as a screen door on a submarine?”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“It occurred to me that few things tell the story of a woman’s life like her closet,”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“In the end, didn’t everyone in the world at some point delude themselves in their own insular narrative?”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“If I ever wrote a book on divorces, one of my first suggestions to parents would be: Get rid of the second (or third) wife in the background when you’re talking to your child—at least some of the time.”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“Sometimes you get the bead. Sometimes the bear get you. - Coach Carr”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“elated.”) And anytime he had to question someone’s loyalty.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“Love that Ritz!” he said. “A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that?”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“A really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“Wasn’t there something to be said for working to live, as opposed to living to work?”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“never had a good gut feeling. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“Cremation was definitely the way to go. It was the way I wanted to go, rather than risk the possibility of going out on a bad-hair day.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“wasn’t so much that I didn’t have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only